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AA BB
for my Dell box with an older Intel wifi card
Network manager (available from the pak installer under category ‘Networks’) has the other two beat by a mile.It also places a wifi indicator icon on the taskbar which you can R-click to turn devices on/off
and L-click to connect to pre-scanned wifi access points.
IMHO It’s a great tool.connman connected but on my box had trouble holding onto the connection
ceni failed completely even after numerous CLI comannds to try to get to working.
If you’re struggling getting ceni or connman to work, give Network Manager a try
anticapitalista
Network manager is great, but is is a bit of a RAM hog when compared to ceni and connman (which is why it is not the default on antiX).
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Thanks, I get your drift.
I think it would help antiX newbies if there was a brief wifi ‘tutorial’ to handle the situation where the default doesn’t work out
You can’t do very much with a distro if you can’t get its wifi up and running quickly
PS If I’m willing to accept the memory hit, can I safely assume it’s OK to purge both ceni and connman ?
dolphin_oracle
you can, but you will need to also make sure resolvconf gets installed. not sure if installing network-manager or wicd brings in resolvconf or not.
Brian Masinick
According to apt-cache rdepends resolvconf
ceni is listed; wicd is not.
network-manager shows up as “enhances” in the command
apt-cache depends resolvconfThe safe thing to do when removing other network managers would be to simply
sudo apt install resolvconf –reinstall--
Brian Masinickresolvconf is currently installed…I installed NM only and guess it was pulled in by the NM install or others.
The memory hit isn’t that bad… and far out-weights the issues and many hours I spent trying to get connman and ceni to work
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